Well, shit, now I can feel inadequate for not owning a smartphone AND be hungry for chocolate all at once. Thanks a lot, consumerist marketing.

Should we expect a lawsuit or do they have a licensing agreement with Nestlé? (It's very indicative of the time we live in that this is the first thought that came to my mind...)

I think this TED Talk really nails what aspects of math most children are never shown and which the government is scared to implement in the curriculum. Some people do discover all of that, through books and/or mentors I suppose... I didn't, not in time anyway.

The education system routinely takes people who might grow to enjoy maths, and obliterates that interest in math with repetitive, contrived, formulaic, drilled problems done with pen and paper, taking great care to avoid talking about where maths come from and what math aims to do. We aren't even teaching math, we're teaching arithmetics, the most boring and most easily automated part of math. It happened to me, I'm sure it happens to tons of people. Some probably grow convinced that they never could've liked math to begin with. Before math aptitude you must have math interest.

I can confirm that I am now much more difficult to avoid.

Don't worry if Elon has few filters, everyone else seem to have plenty of filters they are dying to lend him. I'm pretty sure Elon didn't walk up to a reporter and say "Fuel cells are bull at percent bang crunch"...

And then they wonder why so many IT projects fail miserably. This is just the sad realization that employers hired too cheap and too greedily.

Here I was, all ready to synthesize botulism from its DNA sequences in my basement. What am I going to do with the million-dollar lab I bought on credit?

Not even close. It handles like shit. Jumping is laggy, stopping is slippery, turning is sluggish. Tried in Firefox 24 and Chrome 30 (really? THIRTY? jesus)

Blame Canada!

"I’m a happy Steam customer happily using my happy mouse and keyboard. I don’t want a controller?" "You can’t make a sentence into a question by just putting a question-mark at the end. But we’re happy you’re happy [...]" Oh Valve. I love companies who can still afford to have a sense of humour about things.

In my completely unbiased and valid opinion as a programming enthusiast and wizard-level virgin, I say we should start exposing children to programming as soon as possible. Whisper opcodes into their wombs, put C cheat sheets in their beds, give them blocks printed with operators and basic functions to play with, and when they reach five they have to start reading SICP.

I'm sure we all know by now, from this single but very reputable and totally 100% serious source, that Stroustrup designed C++ to be practically impossible to master so that projects would be bigger and C++ programmers would be worth more ;)

Maybe when you enter a 3D black hole you become a very oddly shaped Flatlander.

How else are we going to get the next Grand Theft Auto?